Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

Establish Goals: (G)
CommonCore State Standard
Content Area: Career and Education Development
Grade Level: 9-diploma
Domain: Self-Knowledge and Self-Concept
Standard: A1
Students reflect on and/or analyze interests, skills, habits of mind, and experiences to maintain a positive self-concept and to aid them in making career and life decisions.
a. School-to-school decisions.
b. School-to-work decisions.

What understandings are desired?

Students will understand that: (U)
  • personal interests and skills create and support self-image
  • these interests and skills can be changed at any time.
  • career choices are effected by self image.

What essential questions will be considered?

Essential Questions: (Q)
  • how do personal interests and skills support self-image?
  • would I like to change my skills and interests?
  • what effects career choices and why?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?


Students will know: (K)
Students will be able to: (S)
•vocabulary: personality, self-concept, perspective, efficacy
•important events: relevant aspects (economic, political, social, individual) from chosen era in US history
•character details: work skills, soft skills, aptitude, short-term goal, long-term goal.
  • U1 (Interpret) tell a story about an experience that describes self-image
  • U1 (Self-Knowledge) recognize personal interests and skills.
  • U2( Explain) express positive and negative aspects of the current situation.
  • U2 (Apply) propose a strategy for attaining the goal
  • U3 (Perspective) criticize the benefits and barriers of the particular self-image
  • U3 (Empathy) role play the imagined new perspective.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe